Shannon, You might want to check out films by Ann Turner, a Melbourne filmmaker: _Celia_, _Hammers over the Anvil_, _Dallas Doll_. Then there is _Shame_, about rape and small-town Australia, Jane Campion's _Sweetie_ (and I think there is one about a piano?) films by Tracey Moffat incl. _Bedeviled_ and _Night Cries_. More recent is _Only the Brave_, by Anna Kokkinos...and many more I can't think of right now. That's off the top of my head...can probably check some more for you next week. Pete Peter Limbrick, Cinema Studies, La Trobe University Home address: 35 Delbridge St, Nth Fitzroy, Vic 3068, Australia ph: 61-3-489-4160 email: [log in to unmask]